Walney Island Offshore Wind Farm

Walney Island was agricultural, with corn fields, up to the second half of the 19th century, when Vickerstown was built to take the overflow of workers from the shipyards in Barrow, and further suburban development followed. There is still farming at Biggar, which was a medieval grange of Furness Abbey. There are now nature reserves at both North and South ends. 15 km out in the Irish Sea is what is claimed to be the largest offshore wind farm in the world.
The church, a nineteenth-century replacement of the original, is at the end of the Jubilee Bridge. The bridge was not there in Fox's day: crossings were either made by boat or across a causeway when the tide was out.

Image © Meg Twycross, 20 November 2009

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